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A visitor walks past a giant snow sculpture at an Ice and Snow Festival in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province on Jan. 10, 2008. The Ice and Snow Festival, which features hundreds of massive sculptures carved out of ice, has become a huge draw for visitors, turning northern China's often forbidding temperatures into a competitive advantage. STR/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom

A little girl plays among snowmen made by children during the 60th Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan, on Feb. 7, 2009. About 300 snow and ice sculptures were on display during the festival. As the largest winter tourism event of Japan, the Sapporo Snow Festival attracts an annual average of about two million visitors in the last 5 years. PTS/Newscom

Ice penguins stand next to the Little Mermaid sculpture in the port of Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. PTS/Newscom

Workers put the final touches on a snow sculpture in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Dec. 18, 2007. SIPA/Newscom

Visitors walk past a giant snow sculpture at an Ice and Snow Festival in Shenyang, China in January 2008. STR/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom

Ice sculptures by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo melt on the steps of Berlin's Concert Hall at the Gendarmenmarkt on Sept 2. The event, which saw participants place some 1,000 ice sculptures, was sponsored by the WWF to attract attention to the earth's melting poles due to global warming. John MacDougall/AFP/Newscom

The sculpture "Dancing Dragon" by Chinese artists is seen at the 60th Sapporo Snow Festival at the Odori Park in Sapporo, Japan, in February 2009. PTS/Newscom

A little boy is attracted by a snow sculpture during the 60th Sapporo Snow Festival. Zuma/Newscom

A man works on the main snow sculpture for the coming Vasaloppet China 2010 ski race in Changchu, China on Dec. 26. The sculpture is over 300 ft. long and 60 ft. tall. Newscom

Tourists pose for photos at Disney Ice and Snow World at Zhaolin Park on Dec. 20 in Harbin, China. Su Qiang/ChinaFotoPress/Newscom

'Teeter Toddler,' one of 16 works of art entered in last year's Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships was made by Team USA, Vermont. The finished pieces often take longer than 65 intense hours of work. Jeff Scroggins/PRNewsFoto/Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships/Newscom

A sculptor carves the finishing touches on his ice scuplture in temperatures hovering below 20 degrees F for the Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival in Roermond on Nov. 13. Koen Suyk/ANP/AFP/Newscom

Two men stand in front of a snow recreation of the 'The Thinker' by Auguste Rodin at the 20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo on New Year's Day 2008 in Harbin, China. Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom

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A teenage boy who posted a video online of himself criticizing Singapore's founding father and disparaging Christianity, shortly after the leader's death last week, has been arrested for 'threaten[ing] religious harmony' in the tightly censored country.

BySaeed Azhar, ReutersMarch 30, 2015

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A Singapore teenager, who criticized Lee Kuan Yew on social media soon after the former leader's death, has been arrested and will be charged with making "insensitive and disparaging" comments about Christians, police said on Tuesday.